Ranger Archive
Thread: Tell me the good things, I can see the bad
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Javrie
Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:53 am
#1
I left SWGs over a year ago and resigned a few days ago. I can see from just logging in all the bad things, and they were confirmed and then some from some of the posts. Tell me though, apart from RP, what are the good things to Ranger? It was what I wanted to be from the first day of release, but I got caught up in crafting. So now, I'm wondering, besides the romantic notion of being a "Ranger" is there anything of substance to justify the prof?
JBMat
Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:00 am
#2
In the words of Arnold - "If it bleeds, we can kill it"
Seems with maskscent and traps, decent weapon skills, and a small amount of brains - we are the new lean mean creature killing machines. Read some of the posts, Rangers are soloing all sorts of stuff. To include stuff we "can't" solo.
And resources are starting to sell again too.
JB
Iseult
Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:28 am
#4
Don't forget our revamped harvesting mods - you harvest tons more now at master ranger than you did before they put them in. Also, our presence in a group improves the harvesting rate for the entire group. If you're out to get tons of resources as fast as possible, then these mods really help.
Traps have really become a lot more worthwhile since the CU - not just the possibly-too-good-to-be-true p-dart, but many of the other ones as well, as they let you apply states that you might not otherwise have. Yes - a few traps are broken, but the CU did a lot to make our trapping skills worthwhile again. As JB said, traps have really made us pretty powerful against critters. Also, traps really increase your usefulness in groups, as you can help keep states and roots on things.
/forage has actually improved as well - a lot of the foods you can forage now have decent mods. Not as great as chef mods, but they will help if you run out of chef food.
Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Carbiner
Bloodfin
Traps have really become a lot more worthwhile since the CU - not just the possibly-too-good-to-be-true p-dart, but many of the other ones as well, as they let you apply states that you might not otherwise have. Yes - a few traps are broken, but the CU did a lot to make our trapping skills worthwhile again. As JB said, traps have really made us pretty powerful against critters. Also, traps really increase your usefulness in groups, as you can help keep states and roots on things.
/forage has actually improved as well - a lot of the foods you can forage now have decent mods. Not as great as chef mods, but they will help if you run out of chef food.
Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Carbiner
Bloodfin
Kinshi
Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:44 am
#5
Thats a fair question :-)
The good things...
We have a very effective snare now
Our droids are more useful to us now
We can out-harvest anyone (and make a ton of money in the process)
Our camps can heal folks really fast
Camo seems to be more effective against both creatures and NPCs
We now have (albeit small) a market for selling camo kits now that every can apply it themselves
Man-tracking helps BH narrow in on their markjs, and helps them identify anyone helping their marks
Its not all bad, still some very nice things all told
BioEngine
Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:06 am
#6
You can't count on P-Darts forever.
They'll fix them eventually.
SeanBlader
Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:08 am
#7
JBMat wrote:
And resources are starting to sell again too.
JB
Well we do harvest a lot, but novice scouts harvest a lot still too, and the market for top end armor resources seems to be saturating.
I do agree with most of the other idea's too. With doctors being the only ones with wound healing, I set down a camp and did a little RP to heal people's wounds yesterday. As a carbineer, I was never able to solo anything before, but against creatures I'm fairly useful. I miss the creature knowledge details, but we do get a little more info than everyone else.
Oh we get terrain negotiation, as in it's exclusive now, CM's don't get any. Useful in PvP.
JascoSmlee
Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:17 am
#8
Shame we have to lower our defenses evenfurther to take full advantage of it though
SeanBlader wrote:
Oh we get terrain negotiation, as in it's exclusive now, CM's don't get any. Useful in PvP.
With my rifle equipped I an now slooooow up hills. Also, Master Scout TN is just as good for PvP isnt it?
SmedleyLlama
Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:31 pm
#9
BioEngine wrote:
You can't count on P-Darts forever.
They'll fix them eventually.
Given SOE's track record, I expect this sooner rather than later. 
BioEngine
Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:28 pm
#11
SmedleyLlama wrote:
BioEngine wrote:
You can't count on P-Darts forever.
They'll fix them eventually.
Given SOE's track record, I expect this sooner rather than later.
I've always wanted to flood a market with something so people would stop complaining about it.
Maybe I should just keep the pearls to myself and make credits off of Jedi that way? I mean, because they "have" to "have" them. They want them, but the just "have" to "have" them.
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